8._[126-1] Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

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Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I 'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!

2._ Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born].

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devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,--extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

Line 534._ A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.

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_Hans Carvel._ And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Till all the whores were burnt alive.

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Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,[319-2] See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

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Line 15._ The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Line 197._ Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;[327-3] Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

_Anacreontic._ Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

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_Ill Omens._ 'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

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Stanza 39._ That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.

Latin and Greek, speaks, 210. names, all their botany, 599. or in Greek, must come in, 220. small, and less Greek, 179. soft bastard, 554. was no more difficile, 210.

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Lips are now forbid to speak, 581. beauty's ensign crimson in thy, 109. divine persuasion flows from his, 338. drop gentle words, 692. fevered, 577. from speaking guile, 819. had language, O that those, 423. heart on her, 554. here hung those, 144. immortal blessing from her, 108. in poverty to the very, 155. let no dog bark when I ope my, 60. man of unclean, 833. no sign save whitening, 636. of Julia, 201. of those that are asleep, 832. poisoned chalice to our, 118. reproof on her, 582. she dasht her on the, 38. smile on her, 489. smily round the, 659. soft were those, 38. soul through my, 623. steal blessing from her, 108. steeped to the, in misery, 614. suck forth my soul, her, 41. take those, away, 49. talk of the, 826. that are for others, 630. that he has prest, 635. that I have kissed, 144. that were forsworn, 49. to speak, causing the, 832. tremble, see my, 333. truth from his, prevailed, 397. we are near, make love to the, 521. we love, far from the, 521. were four red roses on a stalk, 97. were red and one was thin, 256. whispering with white, 543.

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Load a falling man, a cruelty to, 101. ass will not carry his, 792. life thou art a galling, 448. of infamy, any, 462. of sorrow, wring under the, 53. would sink a navy, a, 99.

Soft answer turneth away wrath, 826. as her clime, 554. as silk remains, 313. as young and gay as soft, 308. bastard Latin, 554. eyes looked love, 542. her voice was ever, 149. impeachment, own the, 441. is the music that would charm, 485. is the strain when zephyr blows, 324. moves the dipping oar, 674. muse, nature's, 89. silken primrose, 251. stillness and the night, 65. the music of those village bells, 422. the zephyr blows, 383. were those lips that bled, 38.

Write a verse or two, 204. about it goddess, 332. and cipher too, 397. and read comes by nature, to, 51. as funny as I can, 636. at any time, a man may, 371. fair, hold it baseness to, 145. finely upon a broomstick, 294. force them to, 211. in rhyme, those that, 213. in water, their virtues we, 100. it before them in a table, 834. look in thy heart and, 34. me down an ass, 53. nothing to, about, 748. pen devise wit, 55. the characters in dust, 494. the vision and make it plain, 836. though an angel should, 520. well hereafter, hope to, 253. with a goose pen, 76. with ease, you, 443.